How long is the right wall?

How wide is the window?

What is the distance b/w the bottom wall and the window?

Between the top angled wall and the window?

Where's the best view, out the right window or out the Dinette windows?

Where's the front door?

Where is the family entrance?

Where will you be bringing groceries into the house?

What is the flow in the rest of the house? It helps to see the actual flow through & around the kitchen. If you have a layout of the entire first floor, it would help.

That pantry has the potential of being pretty far away from the main part of the kitchen...

Have you considered a 2-burner induction hob instead of a standard electric hob? Do you really need this extra "cooktop"? Any time you put in a cooktop, you have the potential of using it for regular cooking...so it should also be vented. Perhaps you could put it next to your rangetop and vent the entire width of the rangetop + cooktop.

I recommend the 42" hood over a 36" cooking surface.

Forgot a couple!

What is the width of the DR doorway?

What is the width of the Great Room doorway?

Buehl, Thanks for the comments. And here are some of the answers to your questions:

Dinning & Great Room entrance is 4'4'' wide

The wall with the window (line A) is 19' I�m not sure about the distances between the window. It is a standard window (not sure how wide a standard window is) and it is in the middle of the that wall.

Also here is a picture of the left side of the house. To get an idea of the flow. Its a very open concept floor plan. There is a mud hall that I envision we will be using to bring a lot of the groceries in. The best view will be from the Dinette.

General Idea of the flow of the house.

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Gratuitous bump

Thinking! :-)

Buehl,

what do you use for layouts? I'm going to be heading to the site this weekend to take better measurements.

Maybe take a stab at a layout...will probably fail miserably.

I use Microsoft PowerPoint. I have an image of graph paper that I put boxes on and then save them as a jpg file for uploading to my photohosting site (Photobucket). It's really quite easy. If you or anyone else likes, I could email my template file. It has the graph paper and pre-made appliances and fixtures of various sizes. Just email me from "My Page" and I'll send it to you.

Hmmmm...If you want 3 or 4 people working at once, that means 3 or 4 work stations that don't overlap by much to reduce bumping into each other. Most likely, that will mean a prep sink in addition to the cleanup sink.

We will have a prep sink in the island...one of the things we are debating is where to put the prep sink.

We have most of the appliances and fixtures picked out.

In the original plan we had all the large appliances (Fridge/Freezer and double ovens) on one wall between the entrance to the great room and dining room. Our builder/contractor thinks that putting all these appliances will make the space feel small as you enter into the kitchen. Suggested moving the ovens to the corner. Point D in your layout. Not sure how i feel about having the ovens in the corner like that.

I'm trying to come up with the empty space on graph paper to-scale, but the #s aren't adding up.

For example, if the window wall (A) is 19', then the length, including the door & wall segment b/w the Kitchen & Dinette cannot be 19'4".

Buehl, sorry the measurements were really off. Went to the site this weekend and took accurate measurements. The drawing below isn't drawn to scale but the measurements are correct.

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i added the current location of where the fridge, freezer and double wall ovens are supposed to go. Those can be moved. No wiring plumbing or anything has been done. Just need some ideas to start from.

Do you know the distances b/w the window and the walls (on each side)? If not, is the window centered on the 14'6" wall?

the window is centered on that wall...